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Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath. He shambles about the Irish countryside, an excessively tall, loose-jointed, rawboned figure, with a heron-like stoop and enormous cranium. He has the simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more...
...were required to say what single thing in this issue of the Advocate has pleased me most, I think I should choose Mr. Robert Hillyer's "A Heron." Here there is artifice, certainly artifice justified by achievement. Here too there is imperfection, but of the sort which a less fine critical sense would have trimmed away, losing with it the suggestion which is now so clear of assured though careless power. The little poem has the sharp definition coupled with the large suggestiveness of the best Japanese painting
...teams will probably line up as follows: UNIVERSITY. YALE. Cunningham, l.w. r.w., MacDonald Townsend, l.c. r.c., Sweeney Phillips, r.c. l.c., Dickey Baldwin, r.w. l.w., Murray Claflin, c.p. c.p., Heron Morgan, p. p., Bierwirth Wylde, g. g., York...
...prospects for this season seem unusually bright, as Captain Sweeney, centre; M. R. Heron, point; R. H. MacDonald and S. D. Dickey, wings; and M. B. Schiller and T. G. Driscoll, goals, are available again this year. F. V. Burgess, Spiegel and Betts are all capable players, and should put up a good fight for places on the team...
Burgess, who has alternated with Ordway in most of the games this season will be capable of taking Captain Heron's position at wing. For centre, there are Sproule and Dickey, this year's substitutes, and two other promising freshman candidates, Blossom and Benner, who played excellent hockey at the Taft School. As forward recruits, Spiegle, who was ineligible this year, Bangs, Marlowe and Mudge will be available...